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-- John Brown - last words "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
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-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
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-- Alvin Toffler Arts and Entertainment
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Arts and Entertainment I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
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- Frank Lloyd Wright May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
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Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
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-- Samuel Johnson Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Arts and Entertainment My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Arts and Entertainment
"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
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-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Arts and Entertainment "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
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"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
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-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Arts and Entertainment
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Arts and Entertainment "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
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Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Arts and Entertainment
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Arts and Entertainment Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
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--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Arts and Entertainment
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
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-- Carol Leifer Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
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-- Henry Miller "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Arts and Entertainment For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Arts and Entertainment
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
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-- Albert Einstein My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Arts and Entertainment
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
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-- Kant, Immanuel Arts and Entertainment The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
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